I read somewhere that the average corvette owner is 57 yrs old! I'm 73....but I got to admit I'm driving it less & less. Guess I had to "get it out of my system".
My dad bought a vet within a year after divorcing my mom. He kept it until he died and I sold it to a collector while probating his estate. When she turned 40, my mom bought a Pontiac Firebird. I guess this can affects both sexes.
Great movie. Last week I discovered my 25-year-old daughter didn’t know who Burt Reynolds was. I recommended that she add Smokie and the Bandit to her watchlist.
They were cool to look at but pretty slow... and heavy... and 70s plastics don't fare well...
You could get a 403 cube OldsmoBuick or 301 Pontiac 301 v8 with non-intercooled turbo - no overdrive tranny available, no electronic fuel injection only carburetor (essentially a metered leak) and due to cafe standards and the earl crisis, really tall gears in the rear - slow acceleration, but it'd do like 60 in 1st with the 3 speed automatic.
A bone stock 5.0 mustang made just a few years later would wipe the floor up with any of them...faster in the 1/4, faster top speed (T5 with overdrive), better fuel economy and they always started up regardless of weather or altitude.
I have a friend who had one of those back in the day. More than a couple of times I was in the back seat, passenger side, where I could see the speedometer. It was wrapped around the bottom coming back up to the zero. I know that those old speedos weren't that accurate after a certain speed but, we were moving! Scary and cool at the same time.
i was in the infield of Rockingham race track in 1980 and a Black Trans just like pictured came pulling up in front of us and the most Gorgeous Indian girl with long straight charcoal black hair gets out and was built like a brick shithouse , AHH THE MEMORIES ,she was by herself too,i think she was hunting.
BASED TRANS
I built a model of this exact car my senior year of high school and then had to draw and render it for engineering class.
Love it!
The Trans Am was actually a pretty good car for its time, too.
I had one once when I had my mid-life crisis in my 40s. A year later, my wife had our second and last child and I traded it in to get her a van.
Why don't you have a late-life crisis like I did? I bought 2 corvettes in my 60's. Still have 1 and I'm in my 70's....
Under consideration.
I read somewhere that the average corvette owner is 57 yrs old! I'm 73....but I got to admit I'm driving it less & less. Guess I had to "get it out of my system".
My dad bought a vet within a year after divorcing my mom. He kept it until he died and I sold it to a collector while probating his estate. When she turned 40, my mom bought a Pontiac Firebird. I guess this can affects both sexes.
I'll bet that was fun while it lasted!
Akron to Cleveland in less than half an hour and people on the highway got out of my way. Yes, it was.
I sure miss Jerry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJPM-M_Z65o
Watch ol' Bandit run!
Great movie. Last week I discovered my 25-year-old daughter didn’t know who Burt Reynolds was. I recommended that she add Smokie and the Bandit to her watchlist.
Don't forget Gator and the Longest Yard not the Adam Sandler one.
Also, good ones. I also recommend Deliverance which put Burt, Jon Voight, and Ned Beatty on the A-List.
Dang i forgot that one ,the best of all.
I just watched it again a few days ago on Turner Classic Movies.
Somebody should do a Trump face over Bandit Scene.....
I mean with the gold accents it is his kind of car!
Should have gone topless...
T-topless.
Let’s say that on occasion, someone inside was topless.
Sally Field?
I meant my trans.
Would have been a lot cooler with frog.
🔥🔥🔥
They were cool to look at but pretty slow... and heavy... and 70s plastics don't fare well...
You could get a 403 cube OldsmoBuick or 301 Pontiac 301 v8 with non-intercooled turbo - no overdrive tranny available, no electronic fuel injection only carburetor (essentially a metered leak) and due to cafe standards and the earl crisis, really tall gears in the rear - slow acceleration, but it'd do like 60 in 1st with the 3 speed automatic.
A bone stock 5.0 mustang made just a few years later would wipe the floor up with any of them...faster in the 1/4, faster top speed (T5 with overdrive), better fuel economy and they always started up regardless of weather or altitude.
You know more about engines than I do, but at that age, I went for the cool look.
Yeah they do have nice lines...
They're "real nice" when they're properly warmed over with modern stuff...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGa_1wepNhU
Screaming Chicken
I have a friend who had one of those back in the day. More than a couple of times I was in the back seat, passenger side, where I could see the speedometer. It was wrapped around the bottom coming back up to the zero. I know that those old speedos weren't that accurate after a certain speed but, we were moving! Scary and cool at the same time.
High school Red One 🤪😎 The stuff we did in that thing...still ALIVE
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i was in the infield of Rockingham race track in 1980 and a Black Trans just like pictured came pulling up in front of us and the most Gorgeous Indian girl with long straight charcoal black hair gets out and was built like a brick shithouse , AHH THE MEMORIES ,she was by herself too,i think she was hunting.
Granny fluid is now, gender neutral shift juice.